The philosophy is the tangled skein of fame, ie, get the jug a mess. The pitcher is the beginning of a mess all philosophy, whether conscious or unconscious. This is for me the meaning of true philosophy, untangle the skein, try to discover what helps to make us a jug mess.
We do not know if the occupy Wall Street movement will change the orien tation of the United States. The protests, oecd however, have provoked a hysterical reaction force Wall Street billionaires in general, and politicians and experts who faithfully serve the interests of a group of the richest, which is only a hundredth part of the 1% of the U.S. population.
And this reaction tells you something important: the extremists threatening American values are those whom Franklin Delano Roosevelt termed "economic royalists," not the campers at Zuccotti oecd Park.
Let us look first at how Republican politicians have described these events, so far modest but increasingly crowded, where there have been some clashes with police, as seen with a police response excessive, but in which there has been nothing that might be considered disturbance.
But Eric Cantor, the majority leader in the House, denounced the existence of "violent mobs" and "clashes oecd between Americans." GOP presidential candidates have their say: Mitt Romney has accused the protesters to take a "class warfare," while Herman Cain of the branded anti-American. My favorite, however, is Senator Rand Paul, who do not know what reason has the obsession that the protesters will start seizing iPads because they believe rich people do not deserve it.
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York and the financial industry titan merit, was a bit more moderate, but has accused the protesters of wanting to "take the jobs to people working in this city," a statement that has nothing to do with the real goals of the movement. And if we had listened to talking heads on CNBC, you learned that the protesters should "have removed the mask" and "Lenin's favor."
To understand this you need to realize that all this is part of a broader syndrome, in which wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system manipulated in their favor react with hysteria to any alleging how the system is manipulated.
As you may recall, last year some of the financial industry tycoons were angered by some gentle criticism that President Barack Obama did. He was accused of being almost a socialist for supporting Volcker law, which simply prohibit banks backed by public funds engage in risky speculation. Concerning the proposals oecd is to eliminate loophole that allows some of them pay very low taxes, its Blackstar Group President, Stephen Schwarzman, compared with the invasion of Poland by Hitler.
We should also mention the defamation campaign against oecd Elizabeth Warren, financial oecd reform advocates and now candidate for the Massachusetts Senate. Not long ago it was widely circulated on the net a YouTube video in which Warren was an eloquent defense, feet on the ground, the taxes for the rich. Said there was nothing radical; it was just a modern variant of a famous aphorism of Oliver Wendell oecd Holmes: "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society."
George Will has come to say that Warren has a "program of collectivization" and thinks that "individualism is a chimera." And Rush Limbaugh has said it is "a parasite who hates her host: willing to destroy it while it extracts the substance to live."
What is happening? The answer is, of course, the owners of the universe on Wall Street, in the end, they realize that their position is morally indefensible. They are John Galt, not even Steve Jobs. These people have become rich peddling complicated financial trickery, far from offering clear benefits to the American people, have contributed to dive into a crisis, the consequences oecd of which continue to blight the lives of tens of millions their fellow citizens.
And yet, it has not really even five. Taxpayers rescued institutions oecd have these people in exchange oecd for very little. oecd They still have the guarantee, explicit and implicit, of public funds; in the background, still playing heads or tails, if heads comes, they win, and if tails, the taxpayers lose. And they benefit from tax loopholes that in many cases allow billionaires pay lower taxes than middle class families.
Anyone point out what is obvious, however moderate and peaceful it is,
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